Ag Resources
Note: Most of these resources have been featured in past issues of the NSAS Newsletter and Update. NSAS does not endorse any of these publications.
For additional web based consumer, sustainable food system and farming resource links, go to our Food Resources page.
NSAS Memorial Library
The NSAS Memorial Library was officially launched during the recent annual conference. A majority of the books for the library were donated to NSAS on behalf of the Terry Gompert family and include the bulk of his collection. Books are available to check out. For information please send William an email at [email protected], by phone at 402.525.7794.
Sustainable Farming
- Remote Solar Water Pumps
- Weeds of Nebraska
- Small Farm Resources Project (SFRP)
- Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence
- The Soul of Soil: A Guide to Ecological Soil Management
- Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) web site
- Steel in the Field: A Farmer's Guide to Weed Management Tools
- Northern Plains Family Farmer newsletter
- Sustainable Farm Lease
- The Color of Food Network
- On-Farm Biodeisel Production
- Rethinking Biogas
- Management for Bumblebees
- Backpack Sprayer Videos: Learn to Use Sprayers More Efficiently
- Sustainable Agriculture: Basic Principles and Concept Overview
- Grassfed Beef!
- Mob Grazing with Terry Gompert
- A Gentler Way - Sows on Pasture: Reports from Sustainable Farmers from Minnesota and Iowa
- A Conservation Breeding Handbook
- From the Carcass to the Kitchen: Competition and the Wholesale Meat Market
- Udder $ense: A Search for Low-Cost/Sustainable Strategies of Resourceful Dairy Farmers
- Quality Pasture: How to Create It, Manage It, and Profit From It
- Corporate Hog Operations Videos
- Making Money on Hogs
- American Pastured Poultry Producers Association
- Fit for a Pig
- A Beginner�s Guide to Silvopasturing
- Grass-finished Beef: Production & Marketing
- Sheep and Goats: What they can do for you!
- Fly Management on Your Organic Dairy Workshop
- Healthy Soils for a Healthy Organic Dairy Farm
- Stockpiling Forages to Extend the Grazing Season on Your Organic Dairy
- Using Small Grains as Forages on Your Organic Dairy
- Shades of Green Dairy Farm Calculator
- Transitioning Organic Dairy Cows off and on Pasture
- Setting up a Grazing System on Your Organic Farm
- How to Calculate Pasture Dry Matter Intake on Your Organic Farm
- Organic Pasture Rule
- On-Farm Poultry Slaughter Guide
- High Tunnels & Cold Frames: Tools to Extend the Growing Season
- Choosing the Right High Tunnel- Components and Design
- High Tunnel Resources from Rutgers
- Rainwater Catchment from a High Tunnel for Irrigation Use
- Hoop Houses For Extending Your Growing Season
- Enhancing Soil Health with Cover Crops and Livestock
- Cover Crop Roller
- Adding Cover Crops to a No Till System
- Overview of Cover Crops and Green Manures
- Improve Your Soil with Cover Crops
- Nitrogen Footprint Calculator
- Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
- Using Cover Crops to Suppress Weeds in Northeast US Farming systems
- Cover Crops for Disease Suppression
- The Role of Cover Crops in Organic Transition Strategies
- Using Winter Killed Cover Crops to Facilitate Organic No-till Planting of Early Spring Vegetables
- Organic Apple Production and Marketing
- USDA's Fruit and Vegetable Market News portal
- Fruits - eXtension
- Pears, Organic Production
- Organic Apple Production - A Beginner's Guide
- Pest Management Resource for Farmers and Ranchers
- Greenhouse growing and operation
- Alternative growth areas - growth rooms, cold frames, and high tunnels
- Poinsettia and hardy mum production
- Spring crop production: bedding, vegetable and container production
- Successful turfgrass management
- Invasive species in the urban environment: part I
- Invasive species in the urban environment: part II
- What lies beneath:roots and shoots
- Containers
- Designing Small Spaces
- Resources for Developing School Landscapes
- Principles and Elements of Floral Design
- Care and Handling of Cut Flowers
- Majors
- Online Field Guide for Biological Control of Invasive Weeds and Insects in Nebraska
Marketing and Community Supported Agriculture
- Selling to Restaurants; Archived Webinar from March 2010
- Proceedings: 1996 North America Farmers' Direct Marketing Conference
- To Till It and Keep It
- The Direct Marketing Resource Notebook
- Making it on the Farm: Increasing Sustainability Through Value-added Processing and Marketing
- The Land Stewardship Congregational Tool Kit
- Our Garden: A Project that Supports our Community and Protects the Land
- Making the Connection
- 2004 Growing Together CSA Conference tapes/CD
- Agriseek (marketplace for wide range of farmer goods, services, supplies)
- The Square App
- Financing for Diversified Farms
- Culinary Tourism and Sustainable Agriculture
- Managing Alternative Pollinators: A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers and Conservationists
- Ten Essential Reasons to Protect the Birds and the Bees
- Wildlife Habitat Improvement Guide
- Financing Beginning Farmers: An Evaluation of Farm Service Agency Credit Programs
- Religious Congregations on the Land: Practical Links Between Community, Sustainable Land Use and Spiritual Chasm
- The Chemical Era: 1945-?, Challenge for Human Survival
- Increasing Organic Agriculture at the Local Level: A Manual for Consumers, Grocers, Farmers and Policy Makers
- Nebraska AgrAbility Project
- 57 Ways to Protect Your Home Environment (and Yourself)
- Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with Conventional Financial Data
- Sustainable Agriculture Directory of Expertise
- 1996 National Organic Directory
- A Garden of Unearthly Delights: Bioengineering and the Future of Food
- Our Stolen Future
- From A to Z in Sustainable Agriculture: A Curriculum Directory for Grades K-12
- Free Environmental Health Information Available
- Save Money with Shelterbelts
- DIG IT!... Shows how to prepare soil more easily
- Synergy Magazine
- National Pesticide Telecommunications Network
- Nebraska's Water, Nebraska's Wealth: Choices and Challenges
- eXtension/Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network Webinars
- Social Media for Farmers
- The Climate Friendly Gardener
- Biological Urban Gardening Services
- The National Wildlife Federation's Guide to Gardening for Wildlife
- The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
- The Farmer's and Gardener's Resource Catalog
- Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines
- Directory of Flower and Herb Buyers
- From Asparagus to Zucchini
- The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers
- Dennis Demmel
- John W. Doran
- Charles Francis
- Tom Larson
- Joe Roberts
- Paul Rohrbaugh
- Kevin Seevers
- Charles A. Shapiro
- Tom Tomas
- Dave Vetter
- Dave Welsch
- Gary Young
- Non-chemical Weed Control in Row Crops
- Intensive Grazing
- Organic Vegetable Production
- Sustainable Agriculture and Human Creativity
- Getting Started in Farming
- Drought Proofing Your Farm
- Livestock & Sustainable Agriculture
- Buying Used Farm Equipment
- Low Investment Hog Facilities
- Building Soil Structure with Legumes
- Land Transfer
- Natural Pest Control
- Dairy Grazing
1996 Annual Meeting
- Building Hope in Rural Communities
- Selling Meat Direct to the Consumer
- Organic Gardening
- Growing and Marketing Herbs
- Learning as a Group: IMPACT Project Experiences
- OCIA Certification: More Than a Change in Price
- Successful Alternatives to Chemical Weed Control
- Pesticides and Human Health
- Creative Approaches for Beginning Farmers
- Warm Season Grass and Legume Mixtures
1995 Annual Meeting
- How to Set Up an On-Farm Research Project
- Establishment of Alfalfa Using Nontraditional Cover Crops
- Multiplying Your Harvest Through Mktg.: Value-Added Prod.
- Planting the Seeds for Reform in the 1995 Farm Bill
- Biological Control of Weeds
- Intro. to OCIA: Meeting Organic Certification Standards
- Organic Gardening
- How to Write & Present a Farmer Grant Proposal
- Farmers Markets: Successful Sales & Management
- Maximizing Forage Use in Beef Production
- How to Use Soil Survey Maps
- Community Supported Agriculture
- Grass Fattening of Cattle
- What Farmers Should Do With Their Wastes
- Dealing With the Public-Xmas Trees & Raspberries PYO
- Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Life
- Rural Recycling
- Low-Cost Farrowing & Feeding of Hogs
- Manure & Compost Management
1993 Annual Meeting
- Farmers are Heroes
- Growing & Marketing Herbs
- Direct Marketing
- Windmills
- Environmental Liability
- Marketing
- Comparing Monocropping & Crop Rotations
1992 Annual Meeting
- Community in Nature and at Home
- Sustainable Agriculture Research at the Land Institute
- Sustainable Living: Using Solar Power
- Ecology & Economics of Field Windbreaks
1991 Annual Meeting